[FRIAM] Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube

[Stephen Guerin]

The Action is the integral of the Lagrangian along the whole path, not just
a single instant.

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023, 9:12 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So the difference is at a positive max when the ball hits the ground and
> at a negative maximum when the ball reaches its highest altitude?  So how
> am I to understand positive and negative?    vectors?
>
> Instantaneious Action is at a minimum when the two terms are equal?
>
> I have no intuitive sense of what is going on here.
>
> But thanks for trying, Frank.
>
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> On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 12:27 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Frank,
>>
>> Thanks SO  MUCH for forwarding this to me.  To any other defrocked
>> english majors on Friam, who have listened to these guys blather on about
>> LaGrangians for all these years,  I highly, HIGHLY recommend the video.
>> Pretty short, AND, you might possibly, conceivably understand Steve Guerin
>> when you  get to the end.   Yeah.  Really.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 2:53 PM
>> Subject: Fwd: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of
>> Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>> To: Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
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>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
>> From: Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Jun 29, 2023, 12:51 PM
>> Subject: Watch "The Most Important Idea in Physics: The Principle of
>> Least Action - Ask a Spaceman!" on YouTube
>> To: Thompson, Nicholas <nickthompson at earthlink.net>, Barry MacKichan <
>> barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
>>
>>
>> https://youtu.be/UuqpCBZoX3M
>>
>> ---
>> Frank C. Wimberly
>> 140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
>> Santa Fe, NM 87505
>>
>> 505 670-9918
>> Santa Fe, NM
>>
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